On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 08:51:41PM -0500, Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 08:42:43PM -0500, H wrote:
> > I have just done a minimal installation of Centos7 followed by X Windows 
> > and the Mate desktop on a workstation. Although the default language is 
> > English, I would like to be able to write Chinese text in various 
> > applications.
> > 
> > I seem to remember this was very easy to do in Centos 6 and Gnome: possibly 
> > only requiring only a simple 'yum groupinstall "Chinese Support"' after 
> > which I could use iBus to switch between languages. This does not seem to 
> > work in Centos 7.
> > 
> 
> 
> These days, I use fcitx-anthy on CentOS (which took some work to set up,
> but ibus-anthy, at least, (for Japanese) worked pretty well. I have
> instructions, again, for Japanese, but quite possibly applicable at
> http://srobb.net/jpninpt.html#CentOS6

I'm going to add that a quick look through pkgs.org shows that CentOS-7x
does have packages for fcitx-pinyin and a few other Chinese engines, and it
might be worth considering making the switch. It seems (general impression
on my part) to be replacing ibus in a lot of places, in the same way ibus
gradually replaced scim. 


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